Post 795 - A Random Sketch Dump for late May 2026 - Shapes in Black and White

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Post 709 - A GIF Collective

 Recently uncovered, thought lost, but merely misplaced.  Now permanently misplaced on this blog!

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Post 664 - More Dark Page Experimentation

Because sitting at the TV is just not enough these days...

Wave study

Some images can be replicated by closing your eyes a bit too tightly.

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Post 659 - The Sfumata Propagate in Pennsylvania

Sfumato #1 - Flute Solo in SFUMATOSCOPE with SUBTITLES wiggles its way into the HVAF in State College, Pennsylvania.  See what all the muttering is about  - Here to Flute Solo

 

 

Post 644 - Ribbon Run Color Test A-B-C

 Color progression tests, along with some internal adjustment "on the fly" --

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Post 640 - Gimme a Hand - or at least - A Tonearm! - updated 18 Jan 2024

 

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With Enhancement:

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 And other useless touches:

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And why not some more fiddling?

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Post 638 - Uncovered Abandoned Project - ca 2007

It may reappear, "someday," as well...

                                  (c) 2007, 2023, Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

 

Trying to make Flash 5.5 provide layering effects, using Flash to erase bits with a mouse (!!).  I even mixed a soundtrack for the "trailer."  Oh to be a kid again!  Here I discovered that Flash wasn't very good at rendering out its own AVI or MOV files - they were gigantic and pretty much unplayable - and today they don't enlarge well at all.  Looks like a restart from scratch project... will have to track down some PD orchestrations as well.  Such youthful ambition!!

Post 636 - Coming Soon to a Festival Near You!

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 Likely the "final cut" - click here

Post 623 - Exposing Yourself Like It's 1999 - Exposure Sheets for "Sfumato #1: Flute Solo"

Ah the good old early tech days of digital animation - here was an exercise, rendered in the DOS 6 version of Autodesk Animator Pro, requiring frame by frame layering, one sequence at a time, in a day when a VGA GenLock was as good as output to video could get for the "hobbyist."

It was a further challenge since the Autodesk program rendered things out at 15fps, the sound was on a separate TAPE, and the cylinder used broke in mid-play on its second take, requiring a fast edit using a pause button on the cassette playback.  A 1906 recording with a second generation dupe - yeah, good times, good times.

Here's a re-render of the project, done this year as a test for "Sfumatoscope!"

Click HERE for the "Updated Video" 

Even had to create my own exposure sheets to try figuring it out. I know, I could have been watching football.  This was still more fun, honestly.  A sampling:

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